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Cuba is one of the world's great musical destinations and on
this trip you can enjoy a New Year like no other, as January 1 is also
Cuba's National Day. After the party in Havana, we head off for a musical
tour of the island with Songlines Music Travel, leader Philip
Sweeney, author of the Rough Guide to Cuban Music and a regular Songlines
contributor.
Cuban music is a mix of African and Spanish ingredients,
left over from the slave population from the days of tobacco plantations
and Spanish colonisers. Now all that remains are the maracas and an adopted
name from one of the tribes, Siboney, by the recording studio in Santiago,
where son - the most infectious fusion of African and Latin ingredients -
was born.
Beginning and ending in Havana, we will make our musical
journey from Santiago de Cuba, through Manzanillo, Camag?ey, Trinidad and
Matanzas.
For more information, head
over to the Songlines Music Travel page.
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